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Originally Posted by Johnny199r
isolated aboriginal reserves = breeding grounds of poverty
Prior forced assimilation = residential schools
Residential schools = aboriginals will never trust gov't again, and won't be forced to cities
No possible way for the gov't to ever fix the issue. Can't force these people off their treaty land. Some eventually leave, but carry huge issues by the time they do.
Endless cycle of gov't reliance written into law by treaties and the Indian act.
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The trust (or lack of) is the major issue and I don't blame them, but I really don't want to believe that the Canadian government can't earn it back.
That's why an inquiry into missing aboriginal women is necessary IMO. It's great that the RCMP have determined what might have happened, but that isn't the purpose of the inquiry. The purpose is to figure out the conditions that allowed it to happen and persist for so long. It's stuff like this that will help earn some trust and hopefully enough that one day we can take bigger steps to correct the mistakes that keep them in poverty.